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THBContinental Armorial Wool Tapestry
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PO Box 2135
Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveDec 6, 2024
This sale features fifteen exceptional 16th-18th century tapestries from the Brooklyn Museum, including a striking series of six depicting a stag hunt. The collection highlights the grandeur of French, Flemish, and Dutch weaving traditions. Additional highlights include a Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica porcelain dinner service, paintings, and sculptures by artists such as Reuven Rubin and Edouard Drouot, along with fine furnishings and other notable items. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Italian or Dutch, early 17th century, centered with a large armorial crest (per pale with dexter argent, three bars azure; sinister chequy argent and azure with single fleur-de-lis; bordure gyronny with pairs of five trefoils and towers), surmounted by a plumed helmet with acanthus leaf surround, foreground shows a trellised garden, statuary, and estate houses, the background a chapel, orchards, and mountains, escutcheons at four corners, trefoils, stripes, and a tower, elaborate border with multiple scenes, at left, forest with boars, stags, and squirrels, at right, phoenix and crowned griffon, upper border depicts a sun and moon with game birds in flight, lower border shows a siren with mirror in the waves, flanked by scaled fish, 133 x 129 in. (11 ft. 1 in. x 10 ft. 9 in.)
Provenance: Before July 1921, acquired by Michael Drecier of New York, NY, February 20-21, 1925;
Purchased at The Anderson Galleries, Furniture, Tapestries, Antique Bronze & Marble Sculpture, Rare Old Velvets, Brocades &
Embroidered Fabrics, Antique Persian & Chinese Rugs, Chinese Porcelains, Paintings & Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Michael Dreicer, lot 280 by Quill Jones of New York;
1932, purchased from Quill Jones by the Brooklyn Museum;
Property from the Brooklyn MuseumPublication History:
Furniture, Tapestries, Antique Bronze & Marble Sculpture, Rare Old Velvets, Brocades & Embroidered Fabrics, Antique Persian & Chinese Rugs, Chinese Porcelains, Paintings & Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Michael Dreicer, New York, To Be Sold by Order of Mrs. Jardine Bell Whyte, London, England (Formerly Mrs. Michael Dreicer) [and others]. New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1925. lot 280. “List of Accessions.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 16, no. 1 (January 1929): 34. - Provenance
Before July 1921, acquired by Michael Drecier of New York, NY, February 20-21, 1925;
Purchased at The Anderson Galleries, Furniture, Tapestries, Antique Bronze & Marble Sculpture, Rare Old Velvets, Brocades &
Embroidered Fabrics, Antique Persian & Chinese Rugs, Chinese Porcelains, Paintings & Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Michael Dreicer, lot 280 by Quill Jones of New York;
1932, purchased from Quill Jones by the Brooklyn Museum;
Property from the Brooklyn Museum - Shipping Info
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- Condition
extensive fading and scattered losses to ground throughout, later binding between border and panel, soiling, probable restorations throughout, later binding along border edges, grey wool strips sewn to top and bottom edges of obverse for reinforcement
